Mitsules, Mark S. (Newport News)
Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com
Fri May 7 14:27:15 CDT 2004
>> requires the user to enter HTML code within the text << I'm probably way off on all this, but this doesn't seem right. Is formatting a requirement for both the online and hard copy publication? If so, you seem to be placing a lot of the burden on the content providers. If formatting is such an issue, my initial thought is that you would want to provide an .rtf(Notepad)-like ActiveX control. For those entries requiring a lot of formatting, users could spend as much time typing the tags as they do the content. Maybe Susan can provide some insight, but I thought detailed formatting requirements like scientific notation would be primarily a function of the publisher, not the author. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Susan Jones [mailto:susanj at sgmeet.com] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 3:13 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] HTML formatting entered/imported and merged into Word I'm printing information from the website right now. Let me try again to explain what we need to do. I think you might be on target with what we want ultimately. We need to allow users to enter a block of text with formatting (specifically scientific information - so think scientific names in italics, etc.). Once we have the information, we will need to have it display online and also prepare a final book, both of which includes the formatting. Currently, we are looking at a form that requires the user to enter HTML code within the text. If we go this route, how would we be able to use that information from the database to change the formatting from the HTML code to bold, italics, whatever once it's merged into Word? Besides getting it right in Word, I'm also concerned that the data would not be written to the database correctly in the first place. Susan At 01:13 PM 5/7/04, you wrote: >It can get quite complex if you mean some external client will cut and >pastes from a word document into a text box on an asp page. >This control will allow you to save directly to a PDF or .Doc format on >the server. >You might want to look at ActiveX Server controls, this assumes you can >install them on your website and your web hosting agreement allows it >I would use an ASP component like TX Text Control ActiveX Server >http://www.textcontrol.com/products/activex_server/?TXTEXTCONTROL=ab8916eac 9588203add96dd0ecdf0a46 >This a mid range price control and is about $2500 US >One item of complexity is checking for SQL Injection attacks. >This isn't the only approach. I may be misreading what you are trying to do. -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com